THEA 1900 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Multiculturalism In Canada, Irish Canadian, Reel Fishing
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In walter benjamin"s account, memory creates the chain of tradition which passes a happening on from generation to generation," and the storyteller tells from experience her own or that reported by others. And she in turn makes it the experience of those who are listening to her tale" (in fisher 2001: 227). This online lecture deals with the notion of diasporic communities. America, including the city of toronto, and to some extent in europe, are increasingly home to what has been called diasporic communities: immigrants, expatriates, refugees, guest workers, and exile communities. This diasporic reality has changed the definition of nation, citizen, and subject. The ever-increasing political presence of refugees and immigrants in post-cold war europe and north. America has generated considerable debate about the nature of multicultural societies. It is argued that the world is now producing a different type of a subject, a different type of citizen, and a new type of nation state.
